Bibby Distribution has added six new 13.6m triple-deck trailers to customer Unipart Rail’s fleet to handle increasing volumes of ‘ugly’ freight.
Each trailer can carry up to 20 additional pallets - a 28% increase in load – and features an aerodynamic profile to help reduce fuel consumption on trunking runs.
The triple-deck system has been manufactured using steel mesh, making it easier to see the loaded items, as well as including a safer coupling system, improved curtain restraint points and a new anti-roll technology system.
Independent interior lighting to aid loading and unloading in the dark is fitted, which uses its own power source and does not need to be connected to the tractor unit.
Unipart Rail transport logistics manager Rick Moglia said: “After predicting growth in the volume of rail components and installation materials we need to trunk at night, Bibby Distribution quickly found a way we could increase the capacity of our trailers, which predominantly carry non-stackable or ‘ugly’ freight, without significantly increasing costs.”
Bibby Distribution recently added LPG-adapted tractor units to Unipart’s fleet to reduce CO2 emissions, as well as urban flatbed trailers for transporting rail bogies to less accessible delivery points.
